I believe the "Rome"processor was on the cpu timeline PowerPoint slides at the inaugural Ryzen launch. So nothing unexpected. I have gathered that the TSMC foundry 7nm fab line is further along that many thought. The thinking though was that Qualcomm and Apple would have first shot at production relegating AMD to fill in the minimal production gap slots. Therefore, the "Rome" processors wouldn't be available in any quantities other than engineering samples to whet the datacenter purchasing managers appetites in late 2018. Maybe some slight product availability in 2019. Question is who will get priority at AMD, Zen2 or Navi GPU's for the 7nm parts. Does AMD think there is greater chance to grab market share in gpus or cpus?

Welll! Look at that won't you.. I bet its clocked relatively low, that seems to be the rule, the more cores, the slower the GHz. It'll be interesting when I get my 44/88 core system up and running (RedHat. Yeah, I know, I know, getting there...) but that wouldn't hold a candle to this 128 core monster. Any guesses as to the cost per chip? Imagine 2 of those on a server board.. Redonkulous! SETI wouldn't know what to do with it! lol

Haven't a clue. What package? How many dies per package? If it follows Epyc layout, it would have 4 full active dies. Will they keep the 4094 contacts of the SP3r2 socket? Or have to add more and new socket density?Seti@Home classic workunits:20,676 CPU time:74,226 hours